Exploring matter under extremes conditions at the Linac Coherent Light Source
DIPC Seminars
- Speaker
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Eduardo Granados, SLAC (Stanford University)
- When
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2015/04/29
14:00 - Place
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 4, Donostia
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The Matter at Extreme Conditions (MEC) end-station at SLAC National
Accelerator Laboratory provides a unique system capable of performing research
on high pressure, warm dense matter (WDM) and high energy density (HED)
physics. exploring matter at extreme conditions is very interesting for a
large range of research fields including material and planetary science,
atomic physics or fusion energy among others. MEC covers solid or near solid
densities with pressures in the tens GPa – a few of TPa range and
temperatures between 1,000 K ~ 1,000,000 K, where the particles are strongly
correlated and coupled with complex atomic processes, making them difficult to
be studied theoretically. At MEC, we have built an experimental instrument
capable of in situ measurement of different matter properties before
hydrodynamic disassembly by performing unprecedented pump-probe experiments
involving the hard-X-ray free electron laser (LCLS) source and high power
lasers. In this talk, I will give an overview of the latest experiments we
performed at MEC, and its future capabilities.